UPDATE: Bob Geiger details the process. See mooncat’s comment to this post for AL Senators’ contact information. If you’re not from Alabama and need contact information for your Senators, click here. They need to hear from us.
Think Progress has the video.
The Reed-Levin Amendment, introduced by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., “would mandate a ‘limited presence’ for U.S. forces in Iraq by April 30, 2008, with Americans no longer involved in daily combat. At least two GOP senators — Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Gordon Smith of Oregon — are expected to support the initiative, although it’s unclear whether other Republicans will also back it.”
Republicans who still support Bush – but don’t want to go on record supporting his endless war — plan to filibuster in an attempt to block a vote on the amendment. It’s worked before. Not this time.
Give ‘em hell, Harry!
H/T, Shakesville.
Time to call our Senators
Richard Shelby
Washington, Telephone: (202) 224-5744
Email: senator@shelby.senate.gov
Huntsville, Telephone: (256) 772-0460
Birmingham, Telephone: (205) 731-1384
Tuscaloosa, Telephone: (205) 759-5047
Montgomery, Telephone: (334) 223-7303
Mobile, Telephone: (251) 694-4164
Jeff Sessions
email him
Birmingham, (205) 731-1500 – Phone
Huntsville, (256) 533-0979 – Phone
Mobile, (251) 414-3083- Phone
Montgomery, (334) 244-7017 – Phone
Washington, D.C., (202) 224-4124 – Phone
And be sure to point out that they want us to leave. Their democratic purple-fingerly elected (well, kinda sorta) prime minister says we can go any ol’ time we want, and don’t let the tent flap hit us in the ass on the way out.